I’d like to thank Sheri and indeed all our fabulous Guest Designers over the last couple of years, sadly there aren’t enough places on our DT for all the super talented crafters that are around but this has given us chance to showcase some amazing work and I know you’ve enjoyed seeing them

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Just a couple of reminders for the last day of November…

It’s your last chance to get hold of our discontinued stamps, we don’t have many left and for the last few hours they are all reduced to just £3.00 each. With free postage on stamps it’s a real bargain so do have a look and make sure you didn’t miss any before they get taken off the website

Also, today is the final day to enter our last challenge, we’d like you to make us a Christmas card or project and as always there are prizes up for grabs. You can enter and find all the details on our Challenge Page at the top of the blog

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Leave a comment for the candy draw and help me thank Sheri for joining us, I’m having a few days off so am going to be scheduling the next couple of posts, there will still be one each day at the same time so don’t forget to pop by for your daily inspiration

I won’t be around to announce the winners so instead of a small daily prize I’ll draw a couple of names from the comments that have been left over the past few days when I get back, we’ll send out some sample packs of our patterned papers to the lucky winners

I love all these stamps and am so sad to see them go, I hope you have got all your favourites while we still have them!

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Leave a comment to be in our candy draw, I’m having a few days off so am going to be scheduling the next couple of posts, there will still be one each day at the same time so don’t forget to pop by for your daily inspiration

I won’t be around to announce the winners so instead of a small daily prize I’ll draw a couple of names from the comments that are left over the next 3 days when I get back on Tuesday and we’ll send out some sample packs of our patterned papers to the lucky winners

Pop a little tea light inside each one and the windows will glow, such a sweet idea for a Christmas decoration

ps. for safety make sure you use a battery tealight, we wouldn’t want them going up in flames after all your hard work!

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Leave a comment to be in the candy draw, I’m having a few days off so am going to be scheduling the next couple of posts, there will still be one each day at the same time so don’t forget to pop by for your daily inspiration

I won’t be around to announce the winners so instead of a small daily prize I’ll draw a couple of names from the comments that are left over the next 4 days when I get back on Tuesday and we’ll send out some sample packs of our patterned papers to the lucky winners

Our winner from Wednesday is you Sam (whisper). Email erica@liliofthevalley.co.uk with your address Sam and she’ll send you a little crafty prize

Thursday, 27 November 2014

Good morning all, time for Theme Thursday and I thought we’d have some Christmas cards today

I haven’t even started on mine yet, I made myself a New year’s resolution that I wouldn’t buy any cards and so far this year I haven’t

Wether that will extend to my Christmas cards remains to be seen as time is quickly running out… but I am going to try!!

I will definitely use the art pads for them, they are really quick and easy and save so much time if you have a few to do. So for today’s Theme Thursday I’ve chosen…

Christmas cards made using our art pad toppers

I was spoiled for choice as you can see, I don’t usually put so many cards in one post!

All of these cards are quite simple and using the art pads, some patterned paper and a bit of bling you can soon have a few made in no time at all! You can see our full range of coloured art pads on the website and until Christmas they are in with our fabulous £20 multibuy offers, you can buy 4 for just £20 and worldwide postage on them is FREE!

Let me know what you think of today’s selection, as always I’ll draw one of the comments to win our daily candy. Our winner from Tuesday is you lovely Debbie (fairy blue bell), please email your address to erica@liliofthevalley.co.uk

See you tomorrow when I’ll have a little project to share from Sheri who is our Guest designer this month

Tuesday, 25 November 2014

Did you get your orders in yesterday? You are loving the new range which is great… and especially the Cross Stitch, it’s something new for us so we are very happy that it’s been so well received

As always with a new launch please allow a few extra days for your goodies to reach you. We’ll get them packed and posted as soon as we can but it does inevitably take a bit longer when there are so many orders

Sorry the post was late yesterday, gremlins in blogger I think! If you didn’t see Andrea’s gorgeous rosette do go back and have a look. I have a card today using the 2nd of our cute lil’ elephants. This is a little 4 x 4 card and the cute image is called Baby Heart

I used the new papers from One Birdie Lane, I love the bright colours in this pad and I think it’s one I will be using a lot!

The sentiment is from Simply Sophisticated and I finished with a few tiny buttons, some pink ribbon and lots of stickles glitter

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Let me know what you think of my card today and also the new release, I think some of these stamps are our cutest ever!

I’ll draw a winner from all the comments for the daily candy, our prize from Sunday goes to you Sol, well done, please email your address to erica@liliofthevalley.co.uk

I hope if you are near enough that you will be visiting the shop tomorrow for our last open day of the year. There are some great offers on (we know some of you travel a long way, so it’s a little thank you from us) and we still a have a couple of places left on the workshops if you fancy joining in and making a day of it

We were hoping that the new Cross Stitch charts would be ready in time… and they are, yippee! You can buy them tomorrow in the shop and they will be available on the website on Monday

Each design contains two A3 black and white charts; one showing backstitch and cross stitch, and one with just cross stitch symbols for ease of reference. Also included is a full colour front sheet featuring the finished design Our first launch consists of four fairies and two Christmas charts featuring 6 small separate designs on each

I’ve had a go at many crafty hobbies over the years and although I love to sew, Cross Stitch is something I’ve never done. I’ve been watching the girls here at HQ stitching up the samples and they look amazing, I can’t wait to have a go myself!

I have another card today from Sheri who is our Guest Designer for November…

Sheri used Dropping The Shopping which is one of our older Christmas stamps and is amongst those selected to retire at the end of November

We still have a few of these left so if it’s not already in your collection then now is your last chance to get it!

You can see full details on Sheri’s own blog here and I’ll have more from her later in the month

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Leave a comment to be in today’s candy draw, our winner from Tuesday is you Sabrina, well done please send your address to erica@liliofthevalley.co.uk

A reminder before I go, if you joined in the blog hop don’t forget to check back tonight and see if you were a lucky winner. There is still time to play along if you missed it, start with the post on Wednesday and follow the links around the DT blogs leaving a comment on each one to be in with a chance of winning. We have a full set of the new stamps and also the 3 new paper pads hidden at 2 lucky blogs

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